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No. 279,233. Patented Jun 12,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD J. EISENMANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., AND HENRY KOOK, ,OF HOBOKEN, JERSEY;-SAID EISENMANN ASSIGNOR TO SAID KOOK.

DRESSING-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,233, dated June 12, 1883.

' Application filed December 9, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, EDWARD J. EIsEN- MANN, of the city, county, and State of New York, and HENRY KooK, of Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dressing-Cases, of which'the following is a specification.

Dressing cases containing hand mirrors, brush, and comb are generally neatly finished with silk or other lining at the inside. As the inside lining becomes soon soiled by the comb and brush, the case is thrown away, and the articles that were stored therein are removed and used without any case.

The object of this invention is to so improve the construction of the dressingcases referred tothat the case can be used as a box for collars, gloves, and other articles when the lining has become soiled; and the invention consists, first, of a dressing-case having a depressed bottom panel and a detachable comb and brush tray fitted into the depressed bottom panel; and, secondly, of a dressing-case the lid or cover of which is provided with a detachable tray for the hand=mirr0r, and with means for securely retaining the tray in position in the lid.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of our improved dressing-case. Fig. 2 is a vertical and transverse section of the same, showing the comb and brush tray and the mirror-tray, respectively, in position in the body and lid of the case and as removed therefrom.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the body, B the lid or cover, of our improveddressing-case. 0 represents a tray for supporting the comb and brush, and D a tray for the hand-mirror. The comb and brush tray 0 is stored away in the body of the case, it being fitted exactly into a depressed bottom panel of the same, which panel is formed by a suitably-ornamented shoulder or ridge, a, that extends along the lower interior bottom edges of the case, as shown in Fig. 2.. The shoulder a surrounds the base of the tray and forms a kind of ornamental frame for the same.

The mirror-tray D is applied securely to the lid B by means of a fixed projecting lug, b, applied to one edge of the tray, which lug projects into a recess, b, of the lid, and by a catch,

(1, pivoted near the opposite edge of the tray, which catch engages a recess at the opposite side of p the lid.

The mirror-tray D may be readily removed from the lid by releasing the pivot-catch d from the recess of the lid and then lifting lug b from its socket-recess.

The comb and brush tray 0 is simply lifted out of the body of the case. When the trays B and 0 become soiled by use, they are removed and thrown away, the case being then available for any other purpose, forming aneat and convenient storage-box for other articles.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with the body and lid of a dressing-case, of detachable trays, respectively, for the comb and brush and the mirror, and with means whereby they are retained in the body and lid, substantially as set forth.

2. In a dressingcase, the combination, with the box-shaped body of the case, having a de pressed bottom panel and araised shoulder or molding extending around the same, of a detachable comb and brush tray, which is fitted into the depressed panel, substantially as set forth.

3. In a dressing-case, the combination, with the recessed lid or cover, of a detachable mirror-tray and means for securing the tray to the lid, substantially as specified.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as. our invention we have signed our names in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD J. EISENMANN. HENRY KocK.

Witnesses:

PAUL GoEPEL, SIDNEY MANN. 

